The Sofitel Hotel’s cheesemaking and charcuterie programs are humming along and almost ready for online shopping.
Tag: Greg Biggers
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Illinois’s first in-restaurant cheese-making operation has ‘kind of taken off’
Remember when the Sofitel Hotel started making its own cheese and charcuterie? Here’s what’s up with that six months on.
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Taking matters—and cheese and cured meat—into your own hands
Chef Greg Biggers decided to have some fun with intensive certification and launched in-house charcuterie and cheese-making programs.
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Valentine’s Day Guide 2013
Our picks for the best places to be on the most romantic day of the year
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Key Ingredient turns 50 (episodes)
Thoughts on the first 50 episodes of Key Ingredient
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Chefapalooza costume benefit for Green City Market
Coming up Sunday at Carnivale: Masquerade del Mercado, a costume fund-raiser for Green City Market
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This Week in Food & Drink: Garlic Mustard, Cafe des Architectes, Key Ingredient Dried Shrimp, a New Cocktail Challenge, and More
This week in Food & Drink: what to do with the invasive plant garlic mustard, Key Ingredient dried shrimp, Cafe des Architectes under new chef Greg Biggers, a new cocktail challenge, and more.
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Under new toque Greg Biggers, seasonality and sweetness reign at Cafe des Architectes
On a recent Monday evening, the otherwise underpopulated dining room in the Sofitel hotel was inhabited by French speakers at no fewer than five tables. Our extremely capable server, himself a native of Lille, said it was an anomaly—that week for mysterious reasons he’d attended to an unusual number of diners hailing from the Basque […]
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A tag-team beer dinner, a pig roast, a food truck summit, and more.
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This Week in Food & Drink: Craft Distillers, Key Ingredient Beef Tendon, Wasabi, a Shake-Up at Green City Market, and More
Last week Mike Sula wrote about underground distillers. In this week’s Omnivorous he looks at several regional craft distillers who are going the legit route, among them Paul Hletko, whose Few Spirits will be the first distillery in the history of Evanston. Other locals looking to set up shop are Miriam Matasar and Brenton Engel, […]